Member Catalogues

50 books and manuscripts. Alchemy – Americana – Astrology – Astronomy – Bacteriology – Bibliography – Bookmaking; papermaking – Botany – Classics – Cuba – Dictionary – Distillation; Chemistry – Early Printing (16th century) – Electricity – Fore-edge Painting – Historiography – Literature – Logic – Magnetism – Manuscript – Mathematics – Medical – Microscopy – Midwifery – Natural Science – Navigation – Nuclear physics – Optics – Persia – Perspective – Philosophy – Physics – Russia – Theology – Turkey – Voyages – Women authors

I am pleased to offer for sale a selection of recent acquisitions, which includes a portfolio of 12 hand-pulled photogravure plates of female nudes by Laure Albin-Guillot; Bill Brandt's rare second book, LONDRES DE NUIT; a unique album of photographic portraits of noted film producer, David O. Selznick by Cartier-Bresson and others; an early American exhibition catalogue featuring Alfred Stieglitz and his circle; Robert de La Sizeranne's anthology of early Pictorialist, LA PHOTOGRAHIE EST-ELLE UN ART?, Paris 1899; and a large selection of early histories and manuals of the technical developments of the photographic medium.

I am pleased to offer for sale a large group of photographic trade catalogues and company publications. These ephemeral pamphlets are quite scarce, usually discarded when an updated one was issued. These span the 1880s to the 1950s and were issued by manufacturers and distributors of cameras, lenses, films, papers, and other photographic supplies; most include prices. Among the companies represented are: AGFA, ANSCO, BAIRD & TATLOCK, BAUSCH & LOMB, BLAIR CAMERA CO., GOERZ OPTICAL, DEFENDER, E. & H.T. ANTHONY, EASTMAN KODAK, GEORGE MURPHY, GEVAERT, GRAFLEX, HALOID CO., HENRI BELLIENI, HESS-IVES, ILFORD, JAMES QUEEN, JOHN ROYLE & SONS, LUMIERE, PAUL LEINERT, ROCHESTER CAMERA CO., SCOVILL MANUFACTURING, TRIPAK LABORATORIES, and VOIGTLANDER.

This sampling is but a fraction of my inventory; for a larger selection, please visit my website http://www.cahanbooks.com. New additions are uploaded regularly.

I am pleased to offer for sale a selection of newly catalogued items from our large inventory of the technical history of photography. These include Blanquart-Evrard's INTERVENTION DE L'ART DANS LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, several annual reports, including the first from the International Congress of Photography, Estabrooke's THE FERROTYPE AND HOW TO MAKE IT in a variant binding, Otte's LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY [1858] the first manual on the subject, three works by Henry Peach Robinson, and two editions of Rodger's TWENTY-THREE YEARS UNDER A SKY-LIGHT.

An auction taking place on May 29, 2021 11:00 AM EST

E-list 32 Items

35 items, fully illustrated

30 items, with full-color illustrations

97 books: Ernst Abbe, History of Science, Horology, Machinery, Microscopy, Optics, Photography, Precision Instruments, Technology, Carl Zeiss

Limitations of fewer than 100 copies

Highlights include a WW2 bombers photo archive, a smattering of architectural trade catalogues, and Illinois poets Masters (first edition of first book), Lindsay (personal copy of film criticism title) and extra-illustrated Sandburgs.

E-List 30 Items

184 nineteenth-century Brazilian imprints, with full-color illustrations

36 items, fully illustrated

An illustrated catalogue in recognition of this celebration

Six books and manuscripts; all are less than $20,000, and three are less than $10,000.

from a 1489 Johann Prüss incunable to a 1933 Mickey Mouse pop-up book!